Zero tolerance...I would have most definitely been sent home today for some of my shenanigans as young Sailor (squid) on liberty. But I had a damn good time and no one got in trouble, my how times have changed.

4 posted on 11/09/2012 9:32:46 AM PST by areukiddingme1
(areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))

And their school - USNA - has been the source of some pretty raunchy stories in recent years. These guys probably think they are just carrying on the tradition. Bring on those female midshipmen - whoopee!!!

7 posted on 11/09/2012 9:35:03 AM PST by elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)

More examples of men who have been promoted to senior leadership who never would have been back in the day. But when you have an administration who doesn’t know or care anything about military tradition or standards of performance, the wrong people can get promoted.

My grandfather lied about his young age to get enlisted in the Navy at the start of WWII. He served at sea for 20 years. That great man and the ‘real’ men of their time, would be rolling over in their graves if the could see what has happened to their Navy......... and the country they served.

I just finished Colon Powell's autobiography. He recalled one drunken brawl on the base that he was involved in. It was handled by the CO without lawyers. He said that if it were to happen in "the new Army", his military career would have been over.

This makes me think orders from the top are to downsize from top to bottom, and start by cherry picking disciplinary incidents to pare down:

"A military analyst I talked with a week ago said the Navy is on track to fire a record number of commanders this year for bad behavior."

18 posted on 11/09/2012 10:03:36 AM PST by uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)

“Failure to control officers” seems like the key phrase here. Even in 2012, I don’t think the Navy expects enlisted sailors to be epitomes of clean living on shore leave ... but if LTs and LTjgs were getting into trouble and were being delivered quayside by local cops after a hard night on the town, that’s a pretty hard problem for their commanders to explain.